The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-17
HAIR OIL AND HAIR DYE.
Very Few Men Use Them Nowadays
Gray Hair Rather Fashionable.

Very Few Men Use Them Nowadays
Gray Hair Rather Fashionable.
From the WASHINGTON Star.
Very few men want oil on their hair
nowadays" said barber to reporter. "a
few years ago the man who didn't use hair
Oil was the exception; now the man who
does use it is the exception. OF course we are
glad of the change in taste, for it is money
in our pockets. Five years ago / had to
have fresh supply of oil twice a week {;
now the same quantity will last me a
month"
"How about dyeing the hair and beard"
the reporter asked.
There has been greater falling off in
the use OF dye than in the use of hair oil"
the barber continued. "a few years ago
there was large class of gay old fellows
who dyed their hair and whiskers almost as
regularly as they shaved Most of these
men were more or less inclined to be sports
or beaus, and always wanted to look as
young as possible. Others, however, were
respectable and steady-going citizens and
business men, who gave in to their vanity
enough to want to keep looking young.
There was a lar re class of out-and-out gam
blers and Sharpers, who seemed to have an
idea it was out of keeping with their pro-
fession to have anything but jet black wills
kers and moustaches. So that nearly all
gamblers or sports who had red or sandy
hair on their face, or on their head, for that
matter, used to have it dyed regularly as
black as they could get it. A few of these
are still around town. It's easy enough
to tell them, because their eyebrows
don't match the rest of the hair ON their
face"
$50 you don't have much use for hair dye
nowadays" the reporter interrogated to
keep up the flow of tonsorial "reminiscences
and reflections which, contrary to the tradi-
lions of the craft, seemed to show signs of
drying up:
now and asks to have his moustache or hair
dyed he usually catches us unprepared, and
If we have any dye on hand at all it gener-
ally takes good while to hunt it up and
get the bottle busted off. l think we have
| only one regular customer in that line now
and he isn't an old man, either. He is young
fellow whose hair is black, or nearly black,
while his eyebrows and beard are sandy.
He has his whiskers and eyebrows dyed to
match his hair regularly twice month"
'But young men don't seem to care nova
days if their hair and beard are gray. In
fact, they seem to be rather proud of it.
When they really begin to grow old-that
is, when they get within a few laps of So
they get sensitive about it, however, and if
they are not bald frequently inquire as to the
means for preventing the hair from turning
gray, etc.
''Oh, yes, a great many men use cosmetic
on their moustaches," the barber continued,
in response to a suggestion. SIN fact, there
are very few who don't use it. Some time
ago most men wouldn't let a barber
put any powder on their faces after shaving.
Now nearly all ask for it. It's laughable
how particular some men are about their
hair No matter how much care the barber
takes about combing and brushing it, they
are never satisfied, but always insist on TAX
ing the comb and brush themselves and ar
ranging it just SO, with every hair lying in
a certain position.
''Old customers! I've got three that 1
have shaved and sheared for seventeen years
l think, without ever missing shaving day,
except when they were out of town, or was
| sick, for over a week. They won't, under
any consideration, let any one else touch
them, unless they know / won't be around
for three or four DAYS. One of them let his
| beard grow a couple of times when business
compelled him to be out of the city for a
long time They wait for me for hours when
there are several ahead of them and very
often miss their shaving day rather than al
low another barber to touch their faces. A
man with a tenders skin is about as big a
crank on the subject of BARRIERS and raZors
as Won can imaQinen